Addressing the psychological impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers: learning from a systematic review of early interventions for frontline responders.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Protecting healthcare workers from psychological harm is an urgent clinical issue within the current COVID-19 pandemic. Research on early psychological programmes that aim to prevent or reduce mental health symptoms and that have been tested in frontline responders may assist service providers with choosing a suitable intervention for rapid dissemination in healthcare settings.

Design and outcome measures

First, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFO and Google Scholar were searched through a systematic literature review of early psychological interventions administered to frontline responders in the last 15 years. Interventions were included if they were designed to prevent or reduce psychological impact and had outcome measures of psychological distress (eg, general p

SUBMITTER: Hooper JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8142676 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature